Regarding the mathematical community, Piece of Mind and Geometry Bulletin Board followed up on the UK development and the recent letter by UK mathematicians to the Prime Minister. Frank Morgan asked for opinions on the NSF’s change of “Mathematical Sciences” to “Mathematical and Statistical Sciences”.

On the art side of blogs, Intersections shared a poem by Allison Hedge Coke and Singing Banana gave the solution to its Game of Nine. On the philosophy side, M-Phi asked if/why mathematicians should care about philosophy of mathematics.

Last but not least, Rachel Binx wrote about her data visualization work at this years MTV Video Music Awards,Maurizio Codogno started a series on Gödel’s Incompleteness theorem (translation) and MathBlog.dk gave a short exposition on the pigeon hole principle.

On the teacher side of blogs, Math Mambo decided to not just help, but join a student taking an online course (including fun grief). Misscalcul8 shared a conversation with Marcelle Good on textbooks. Think, Thank, Thunk shared the story of students discoverning the product rule by themselves while Exzuberant embraced Rebecca Black to make statistics a hit. Also, Learning and Teaching Maine handed out the criteria for the upcoming Math&Multimedia Carnival — deadline is Sept 23.

If you want to relax after reading all these posts, Mathematics for Teaching offers a nice video on mathematical patterns in nature, which goes together well with this post on La Covancha Matematica (in Spanish, translation). You might also enjoy this visualization of a very old goodie on Math Is The New Black.